Hi, Rafael > From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:r...@rjwysocki.net] > Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidbg: Add multi- > commands support in batch mode > > On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 04:12:08 PM Lv Zheng wrote: > > This patch adds multi-commands support for the batch mode. The same > mode > > can be seen in acpiexec. > > > > However people may think this is not useful for an in-kernel debugger, > > because the in-kernel debugger is always running, never exits. So we can > > run another command by running another acpidbg batch mode instance. > > > > But this mode should still be useful for acpidbg. The reason is: when the > > in-kernel debugger has entered the single-stepping mode, ending acpidbg > > (which closes the debugger IO interface) will lead to the end of the > > single-stepping mode. > > > > So we need the acpidbg multi-commands batch mode in order to execute > > multiple single-stepping mode commands in the batch mode. > > > > Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zh...@intel.com> > > Does this depend on the kernel flushing support series? [Lv Zheng] This depends on the "flush" stuff. That's why I sent it to the same mailing thread.
Thanks -Lv
